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Culture
Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?
A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building.
Malkia Devich-Cyril
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Labor
Biden Has Abandoned His Covid Worker Safety Pledge
Biden's much-anticipated workplace safety rule excludes most workers—and some in the labor movement are not happy.
Christopher D. Cook
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Feature
Why Cubans Protested on July 11
Is this the beginning of the end of fear in Cuba?
Samuel Farber
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ViewpointRural America
Dear Congress: Say No to Water Privatization in the Infrastructure Bill
Water costs have soared in recent years as federal funding for water infrastructure has shrunk. Privatization is the last thing we need.
Rural America In These Times
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Departments
The "Landback" Movement Would Return Stolen Land to Indigenous Stewardship
Part of the larger decolonization movement, landback is critical in dismantling white supremacy and mitigating climate disaster.
In These Times Editors
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Feature
How Dare Samantha Power Scrub the Yemen War From Her Memoir
Power backed the disastrous U.S. intervention in Yemen. But you wouldn't know that from reading her much-lauded memoir.
Shireen Al-Adeimi
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Labor
We Need a Big National Strike Fund
More successful strikes help the entire labor movement. We should pay for them together.
Hamilton Nolan
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Feature
Market Logic Is Literally Killing Us
Historically, during national emergencies like World War II, the U.S. government subordinated business interests to the public good. Why can't it do so in the Covid-19 crisis?
Rick Perlstein
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Feature
Congress Tried To Force Trump to End the Yemen War. Now They’ll Have To Do the Same With Biden.
Activists say it's not enough to trust Biden's promises to end U.S. support for the war: Congress must compel him.
Sarah Lazare
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Labor
Work Doesn't Have to Destroy Your Soul
How worker cooperatives are creating direct democracy on the job.
Maximillian Alvarez
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Viewpoint
An Old Idea for a Guaranteed Income Is Back in Style
A new proposal for a negative income tax could eliminate poverty in the United States.
Max B. Sawicky
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Labor
As Devastating Plant Shutdown Looms in West Virginia, National Outrage Is Hard to Find
A union set to be wiped out by layoffs says politicians are missing in action.
Hamilton Nolan
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Viewpoint
We Need Radical Economic Change—Not Biden's Corporate Capitalism
Stimulus packages are not enough. Only practices of deep democracy and shared ownership can end our cycle of economic disaster.
Stacey Sutton
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Labor
The Leadership Struggle In One of California's Most Powerful Unions Just Keeps Getting Weirder
Accusations of cheating, chicanery and violent retaliation dog the SEIU Local 1000 election. The consequences for labor are very real.
Hamilton Nolan
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Duly Noted
Breaking Bad Recap II, Season 5, Episode 8: The Book of Walt
Lindsay Beyerstein
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ViewpointLabor
We Are Zoomers and We Want the PRO Act
Gen Z and Millennials are facing a bleak economic future. The answer is to massively expand union membership and democratize workplaces.
James Coleman and Nick Gonzalez
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Labor
Over Mayor Lightfoot’s Objections, Chicago Is Set to Finally Enact an Elected School Board
Despite some qualms with the legislation, public education advocates are cheering the embrace of school democracy over mayoral control.
Kari Lydersen
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Culture
How Capitalism Turned Women Into Witches
Sylvia Federici’s new book explains how violence against women was a necessary precondition for capitalism.
Jude Ellison Sady Doyle
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FeatureThe Wisconsin Idea
Is Gerrymandering Forever?
Gerrymandering guarantees undemocratic elections. Activists in Wisconsin are organizing to win an uphill battle for a fairer process.
Katjusa Cisar

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